Maccabee on The Daily KOS has an superb post on a Navy officer discussing the current military situation, and how impending an attack on Iran is:
Like most Marines and former Marines, she is largely apolitical. The fact is, most Marines are trigger pullers and most trigger pullers could care less who [...]
Two people have been charged with a felony for using flour and chalk to mark a trail through a parking lot to direct runners. For those who don’t know what a felony is, and on what category this pair is being charged, here’s a helpful description from Wikipedia:
Crimes commonly considered [...]
Could well be an explanation of DRM.
On Vernor Vinge’s Rainbows End all hardware and operating systems have embedded Digital Rights Management software, a fact that while Vinge doesn’t specifically explain it, probably outlawed operating systems such as Linux which you have under your control (and not the other way around).
Now a guy in the U.S. who has been convicted of uploading [...]
Venezuela has passed a constitutional reform that will allow Chávez to legally stay on as a president for the rest of his life.
Assembly President Cilia Flores said Chavez’s proposed changes to the constitution, including the lifting of presidential term limits, were approved by all 167 lawmakers after about six hours of [...]
Detailed fiat currency article over at Technocrat, with a very spirited discussion on the comments. I completely disagree with Thomas Lord’s points, but an anonymous poster already went through a lot of work calling bullshit! on them. I’d never heard of the Working Group before (more on that group on The Telegraph).
From Rudy Guiliani:
“Freedom is not a concept in which people can do anything they want, be anything they can be. Freedom is about authority. Freedom is about the willingness of every single human being to cede to lawful authority a great deal of discretion about what you do.”
Oh, come on! [...]
A couple years ago, on my first visit to Romania, I was taking a bus with my girlfriend to the center of Bucharest. The bus ticket system worked like this: you buy a ticket on a booth someplace, go wait at the bus stop, and when the bus arrives you climb in by [...]
AT&T has a statement on their site where they (kind of) respond to the allegations that they helped the NSA in spying on American citizens.
The news media have carried reports alleging that AT&T is participating in an unlawful NSA terrorist surveillance program. Unfortunately, the law does not permit AT&T to respond to those allegations.
The U.S. [...]
I’ve been keeping quiet lately, partly occupied with other projects but mainly out of disgust with the general news that have been coming down the pipe. Two news items in a row have shaken me out of my self-imposed apathy.
First, an executive order allows the government to seize financial assets of anyone who’s deemed [...]